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* This post about Errol Morris's latest documentary is being linked around a lot. It's about a woman who abducted and raped a man in the 70s, but was only sentenced to one year (which she never served), apparently because the UK criminal justice system at the time wasn't quite sure it believed men could be raped.
This sounds pretty awful, so why's the post say this: The subject matter here seems right in the wheelhouse with other Morris profiles of the delightfully weird in films like Gates Of Heaven and Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control.
I mean, "delightful" is not the word I'd use. I think I'd probably use some other word.
* Since I've been encouraging people to watch Baccano!, I should probably warn for two items of mild racefail in there.
1) There's a Mammy stereotype whose role is basically to fret about the fate of the rich white girl.
2) One of the two newspaper reporter guys, Elean, is a black guy who shows similar tendencies to fawn over the same girl, and also gets humiliated a lot - not any more than the other reporter guy, but given that there are only two black characters in the show, it comes off as a little iffy.
* I tried making pinto-bean-and-salt-pork curry, but it didn't really work as well as the pinto-bean-and-salt-pork miso soup.
(Pinto-bean-and-salt-pork miso soup was a great idea, by the way. Thank me. Unless you're watching your sodium intake. Then you must curse me, for I come bearing your destruction.)
This sounds pretty awful, so why's the post say this: The subject matter here seems right in the wheelhouse with other Morris profiles of the delightfully weird in films like Gates Of Heaven and Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control.
I mean, "delightful" is not the word I'd use. I think I'd probably use some other word.
* Since I've been encouraging people to watch Baccano!, I should probably warn for two items of mild racefail in there.
1) There's a Mammy stereotype whose role is basically to fret about the fate of the rich white girl.
2) One of the two newspaper reporter guys, Elean, is a black guy who shows similar tendencies to fawn over the same girl, and also gets humiliated a lot - not any more than the other reporter guy, but given that there are only two black characters in the show, it comes off as a little iffy.
* I tried making pinto-bean-and-salt-pork curry, but it didn't really work as well as the pinto-bean-and-salt-pork miso soup.
(Pinto-bean-and-salt-pork miso soup was a great idea, by the way. Thank me. Unless you're watching your sodium intake. Then you must curse me, for I come bearing your destruction.)
